Student Scholarship

The following is a list of the a few examples of recent pre-doctoral (thesis) and dissertation project titles, as well as student publications, manuscripts, and conference presentations (2009 – present) of the graduate students in the Organizational Science program.

Below the list, please find two powerpoint attachments outlining recent and archived research achievements by Organizational Science graduate students.

Sample Pre-doctoral Project Titles

“Time in the new economy: The moderating effect of polychronicity on the relationship between layered-task time and job satisfaction.” Author: Brett Agypt

“If you can’t say anything nice: Sociomaterial contributions to a positive bias in online reviews”. Author: David A. Askay

“When supervisors lead meetings: Relationships with leader-member exchange, perceived organizational support, and meeting citizenship behaviors.” Author: Benjamin Baran

“The effects of social talk on heedful interrelating.” Author: Daniel L. Bonilla

“The relationship between dysfunctional interpersonal tendencies, derailment potential behavior, and turnover.” First Author: Marisa Adelman Carson

“CEO background and the adoption of Western-style human resource practices in China. First Author: Katherine A. Frear

“Volunteers and Group Affiliation.” Author: Frevert TK

“Volunteers’ commitment and retention: An examination of embeddedness practices.” Author: Goh, Adrian.

“Who are Supportive Leaders and Why Should We Care? A Multi-method Study of Supportive Leadership.” Authors: Paustian-Underdahl, S.C.

“Using structuration and gender theories to understand work-family management strategies used by women entrepreneurs”. Author: April Spivack

“When being creative hurts: A comparison of the relationship between managers’ innovative cognitive style and job performance evaluations in the non-profit/ governmental and for-profit sector.” Author: Szymanska, I.

Sample Dissertation Titles

“Promoting Employee Engagement through Managers’ Strategic Use of Meetings” Author: Joseph A. Allen

“Time and the Work/Family Interface in a Fortune 500 Organization: The Direct and Interactive Effects of Temporal Structures, Out-of-Office Contact, and Polychronicity on Negative Work-to-Family Spillover.” Author: Brett Agypt

“Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp.” Author: “Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp” Author: David Andrew Askay

“Managing for high reliability: The relationship of collective mindfulness and managerial communication with social-exchange perceptions, performance, and creativity.” Author: Benjamin Baran

“Safety Climate and After Action Reviews in the Fire Service” Author: Daniel Lorenzo Bonilla

“Antecedents of Effective Leadership: The Relationships between Social Skill, Transformational Leadership, Perceptions of Leader Effectiveness, and Trust in the Leader.” Author: Marisa Adelman Carson

“Leadership in Groups.” Author: Leann Caudill

“Double Standards and Selection” Author: Sharon Clemons Doerer

“Connecting personality, ambiguity, and perceived organizational support through the socialization process.” Author: Alexandra Dunn

Developing the Construct of Self-Evaluated Career Success: A Grounded Theory Study” Author: Katherine Frear

“The Intersectional Effects of Race, Gender, and Class on Worker Outcomes” Author: Tonya Frevert

“Institutional Dynamics in Managerial Political Linkages” Author: Jianhua Ge

“Understanding executive turnover: Executive performance and economic changes.” Author: Heather Gordon

“The influence of social class on relationships at work.” Author: Andrew Loignon

“Understanding Older Workers’ Decisions to Participate in Training and Development” Author:Erika C. Lopina

“Creativity and Innovation in Teams” Author: Jessie Olien

“The Role of Cultural Similarity and complementarity on Expartriate Embeddedness.” Author: Zoa Ordonez

“A Meta-analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness” Author: Samantha Paustian-Underdahl

“Examining Boundary Conditions of Organizational Support” Author: Paul Schmidt

“Work environment choice: A mixed methods investigation of how spatial autonomy and motivation affect productivity, creativity, and well-being of mobile workers.” Author: April J. Spivack

“Business ethics and corporate social responsibilitybusiness ethics and corporate social responsibility” Author: Oscar Jerome Stewart

“Entrepreneurial Orientation and Organizational Identity Negotiation in Large, Multigenerational Family Businesses” Author: Izabela Szymanska

“Understanding coworker resource exchange: A social relations modeling approach.” (Working Title) Author: Jane Shumski Thomas